GeriPal

MARCH 28, 2024

Well, as a kick off to this year’s first in-person State of the Science plenary, held in conjunction with the closing Saturday session of the AAHPM/HPNA Annual Assembly, 3 randomized clinical trials were presented. And when I presented it to the transplant team, they said, “This is interesting, but we don’t need that.

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GeriPal

MARCH 24, 2022

Alex: Also returning Rebecca Sudore, who is professor of medicine at the UCSF in the division of geriatrics, and is a geriatric and palliative care doctor. But when you’re asking someone to make a decision about code status, you’re asking them to make a decision that is in effect right now in the present, right?

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GeriPal

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Most of the debate seems rather wonky, as honestly it feels like we are getting stuck in the weeds of semantics and definitions, like what counts as ACP versus in the moment decisions. And I think social workers, advanced practitioners, nurses, really feel comfortable giving functional prognoses more so than time-based prognoses.

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GeriPal

AUGUST 24, 2023

You’d imagine that as a seasoned palliative care doc, I’d have a pretty good definition by now of what “maintaining dignity” or “loss of dignity” means, but you’d be sadly wrong. Eric: Do you have a definition of dignity now? I’m fully present. Harvey: Good question. I’m not distracted. ” Eric: Yeah.

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GeriPal

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

There’s a lot written on grief, but so little is written on the loss experience and even a definition of loss is even lacking. Matthew: Well, I just happen to have a definition here, Eric. So we did focus though, Eric, and then I will stop, we did focus more on loss. It’s sort of like all of us in supportive care.

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GeriPal

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Well, it’s not just being present, though. Forget you as a doctor right now, or as social workers, think about you as a person meeting this person at a bar. And oftentimes the existential landscape of serious illness, there’s no special thing. Oftentimes, it’s human presence that does the most healing.

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GeriPal

JULY 13, 2023

And we had the date, if it was present in the EHR, to provide that context for the clinician. I think that was always cool is that we adopted a pretty broad definition. And when we presented it to the DSMC, which Alex was a member too, but we thought it was nice. POLST advanced directives, what am I forgetting?

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GeriPal

MAY 11, 2023

Some of them, like education, definitely social determinants of health. Ann Kelly, who’s been on the podcast many times, social worker on palliative care, she’s always under a minute. Kristine: I like to tease my geriatric friends about age. AlexSmithMD Transcript Eric: Welcome to the GeriPal Podcast.

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Home Care Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

I think there’s definitely a stigma that, like you said, we just all wanna be fixers and we almost don’t wanna take advantage of that, that thought that, oh, the things I did weren’t enough, or I, I wasn’t able to to really fix that person. If you’re really a, a healthcare worker is really struggling.

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